IT as a Service (ITaaS)

A good explanation of how you can benefit from using CeraNet Cloud Computing Services — If you had to sum up the power of the cloud, the term IT as a Service (ITaaS) fits the bill. Putting your hardware, platforms, and/or software in the Cloud will allow you to increase agility, simplify IT for end users, and speed up key business processes.  Here are examples:

Corporate build vs use as a service

It costs millions of dollars to build out the infrastructure… land and building costs, power including multiple utility feeds, generators, UPS and power conditioning, HVAC / CRACK units to hand the heat from servers (you need this if you have three servers or three thousand – without physically taking care of your equipment, you are greatly increasing the risk of failure), connectivity – you need multiple high-speed fiber connections (if one goes out, you cannot go out), maintenance – expensive vendors and on-staff management, equipment – routers, switches, racks, raised floors, miles of cables, etc. All of this and you haven’t even installed a single server, let alone get it all to work and run your websites, email, business applications, backup services, disaster recover, etc.  The list goes on, but you get the point.  Use an existing public data center and you not only pay a small fraction of the total costs, but also only pay for what you use.  The costs are ongoing operational expenses vs high capital expenses.

Small / Mid sized businesses or outsourced IT provider

After you get past the hold up of building and owning a data center of your own, you have the decision of using your own equipment vs using a cloud computing provider.  If you are doing it yourself (DIY – HomeDepot style), you’ll need to figure out what kind of processing power, memory, and storage you need at peak use, buy the server ($10,000 plus), setup and configure the server + software (licenses are another $2,000 to 20,000), install all the business applications and databases, and get it working in the data center.  According to recent research, you’ll spend on average $22,000 on each server just to get started and another $3250 per year for maintenance and upkeep.  The same research says that the average server is only 15% used.  That means you are wasting $18,700 when you turn on the server + $2762.50 per year, per server.  If you use a cloud service provider you can do this in minutes and have the entire platform ready to go by the end of the day.   More importantly, no capital outlay, pay only for what you use, and you can change the resources as you need them!

Contact us today at sales@cera.net to learn how we can help you get more for your money.

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